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A Rohmerian Study of Manners

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Balzac Reframed

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This chapter begins by focusing on the relationship Balzac and Rohmer have built with their fictional characters through an investigation on their visions on womanhood, and with a particular emphasis on the social, cultural and economical profiles of the wife, the mistress and the spinster. It argues that Rohmer prolongs the sociological structures of nineteenth-century society as depicted by The Human Comedy through predominantly bourgeois and wordy protagonists whose discourse highlight the balance of power between upper and lower classes. A close analysis of The Marquise of O further develops Rohmer’s theorisation of language and highlights the dynamics between classicism and romanticism resulting from his inherently Balzacian approach to Heinrich von Kleist.

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Tavassoli Zea, Z. (2019). A Rohmerian Study of Manners. In: Balzac Reframed. Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30615-1_3

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